A CHIP OF THE OLD BLOCK...

My son Paul was over here at the weekend helping me with some work on my garden studio/chalet. I was up a ladder calculating the length of the plank to be used as a fascia board. Paul called up:

" Dad if you use the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle,  ΔxΔp≥h4π Δ x Δ p ≥ h 4 π, and apply Planck's Constant,  = 6.62607004 × 10^-34 m² kg / s,  you can calculate the length of the plank. "

HA! HA! HA! I laughed so much I almost fell off the ladder. Paul is a chip of the old block.

Werner Heisenberg

Max Planck

WHERIN THE PHILOSOPHER ANTHONY KENNY TALKS ABOUT HIS ADMIRATION FOR GENE...

ANTHONY KENNY

"... I have also been greatly influenced by the well-known philanthropist, philosopher, humorist and novelist, Gene Vincent. As a philosopher I would put him up there with Wittgenstein. I have great admiration for his originality of thought and his integrity. Gene is never afraid to stand up against the prevailing view. Take his principled stand some years ago against gay marriage (sic):

Gay marriage it shall never be.

Not in Merrie England

Land of the free "

 

Detterling on this blessed Feast Day of Saint Polycarp I offer you the following olive branch: I hereby offer to remove from this blog all posts relating to Myrtle Thornberry R.I.P. on the condition that you post on here a full and unequivocal apology for all the hurt caused to so many by The Clique.

I can't be fairer tan that.

Let's put all animosity behind us. I wish to get back to the good old days of 2005 and all that banter and badinage and rip-roaring, rollicking good fun.

GENE

Another fine painting by a little-known artist...

Portrait of Bernard Leach  ...  Tony O'Malley

Portraits of the artist's parents   ...  Tony O'Malley

Tony O'Malley HRHA

Artist Bio

 

Tony O’Malley (1913-2003) was a self-taught painter from Callan in County Kilkenny who developed a passion for art from a young age, painting for pleasure. Though he started his career in banking, a battle with illness forced him to turn his full attention towards art, eventually taking it on as a profession.
He spent some time in St Ives in Cornwall where he took strong influence from the St Ives artistic community. When his close friend Peter Lanyon was killed in a plane crash, O’Malley dedicated many of his paintings to his memory and took on a more sombre palette. It wasn’t until he married and travelled to the Bahamas around a decade later that his work became characterised by a use of bolder colours.
The artist was elected a Saoi of Aosdána and the Irish Museum of Modern Art held a major retrospective of his

 Another favourite painting...

Luuk van der Drift   ...   THE PLEADING LEPER  Gospel of Mark 1:40-45

                                   Mark 1:40-45

New International Version

Jesus Heals a Man With Leprosy

40 A man with leprosy[a] came to him and begged him on his knees, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.”

41 Jesus was indignant.[b] He reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” 42 Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cleansed.

43 Jesus sent him away at once with a strong warning: 44 “See that you don’t tell this to anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.” 45 Instead he went out and began to talk freely, spreading the news. As a result, Jesus could no longer enter a town openly but stayed outside in lonely places. Yet the people still came to him from everywhere.

 GREG TRICKER ANYONE?

I think he's a marvelous artist.

Christ-Golgotha  ... Greg Tricker  

Bride of Iona, 

2014

 Mr & Mrs Anonymous Torquay here...

Autumn in Torquay

"Woke TES clique, pioneered by the sandal-wearing, dainty boy, Mr Detterling."

Ha! Ha! Ha! We love it Sir Henry. Well done!

 Mr & Mrs Anonymous 

Torquay 

 FRED DIBNAH ... a true hero

 SEASCAPE COUNTY MAYO...

 A FAVOURITE MEDJUGORJE PHOTO

Medugorje visionary Marija during an apparition

Have had the following email from Clive Thornberry...

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

Myrtle Louise Thornberry 

Born 15th May 1973  (Nee Lambourne)    Goring - by -Sea

Died 5th August 2009     Zurich

Cause of Death: Suicide

Regards

Clive Thornberry

Myrtle Thornberry R.I.P.

 Lock on the Grand Union Canal near Uxbridge in winter

Film not digital

You are never going to change Detterling are you?

' he is going to approach West Sussex County Council with a public information request on the matter. He has already had an informal [and very general] conversation with a member of staff at Centenary House in Crawley, but once something is put in writing then the procedure will have to go forward. And if it turns out that you have been making false allegations it is going to look even worse for you than it does now. TC and the Governors have used Committee Privilege to keep things under wraps while they decide what to do next, but this suicide business would tip things over into a criminal area if it is proved that you have made repeated false allegations, and at that point they would have to take the wraps off.' 

I once some years back described you thus to the Friday Night Club in The Good Yarn:

"Detterling is all mouth and alimentary canal."

How we laughed!

 I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE SEEN THIS SIR HENRY...

Detterling is now claiming that that it is he who is faking your comments on here.

I think he is quaking in his open-toed sandals about more archive material being posted by you.

Anonymous13 February 2022 at 14:13

Excellent.

The more tendentious shite you can dredge up from the past, the better, so far as I am concerned. You seem to think that you have some kind of advantage over me - by all means go on thinking that.

"Should Mr Detterling forget his place" - you do realise, I hope, what a precise image of pompous self-regard this projects?

I didn't think that Gene would fall for this one, but he has. I always said that he was as thick as he was nasty.

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1. 
   GENE VINCENT14 February 2022 at 00:16

   
   'I didn't think that Gene would fall for this one, but he has. I always said that he was as thick as he was nasty.'
   
   And what exactly has Gene fallen for? Not for the first time you are being incoherent Detterling.
2. 
   Anonymous14 February 2022 at 01:49

   "And what exactly has Gene fallen for?"
   
   Do you SERIOUSLY imagine that I am going to tell you? let us just say that for the past ten years Gene has fallen, every time, for all the hoaxes I have pulled on him, including the one that kept this gruesome blog off the air for a year and a half. And this one is proving to be no different.
   
   As for you, I commend to you the answer given by H H Asquith to a series of parliamentary questions on Monday 4th April 1910. The Sir Henry pose will get caught up in it, but I can live with that. I just hope you can.

 

TO DELIA...

  From

GENE

 

TES OPINION FORUM MEMORIES

(Quite a few TESSERS are now turning up on this blog. They are most welcome. Tessers enjoy the following.)

 

(This homily was delivered on Easter Sunday 2017 in a C of E church on Tyneside by a visiting C of E pastor who wishes to remain anonymous.)


Dearly Beloved,


First let us get all the Tyneside colloquialisms, aphorisms, clichés and platitudes out of the way:


"Northern born and northern bred. Broad in the arm and thick in the head" "nooling"  "charver"  "mint" "belter"  "away the lads" "hinny" "wor lad" "gan nin" "howay" "Geordie's lost his penga" "Toon army"  "Bonnie lad"  "Doon the double ra" "Scotswood Road"  "The Blaydon Races" ...


Oh! my. Doesn't that feel better? (laughter)


Now dear brothers and sisters we have all heard the quote from Edmund Burke:

“Evil thrives when good people do nothing”

 

This is a quote that stirred my heart. Evil has surely made itself known and one does not have to go far to see it or hear about it. This quote has applied to each and every one of us from the beginning of creation until the end of days on earth.  From a Christian perspective, I have recognized the necessary participation we as believers need to have in this world.  Now this morning I would like to apply the corollary to Edmund Burke's observation and state that: "Evil disappears when good men do something."

 

Dear brothers and sisters let us cast our minds back a few years to a dreadful reign of terror that befell England's green and pleasant land. This occurred on the Opinion Forum of the website of the TES publication. Many of us are familiar with what happened but let us refresh our memories. A nefarious grouping, who became known as The Clique, gained a hold on Opinion Forum.

 

The Clique was composed mostly of  pinko liberal and extreme left-wing Fascists and their agenda was to exterminate all opinion that did not go along with their support for such left wing/liberal causes as the Gay Lobby and pro-abortion, pro-euthanasia stances. To say The Clique carried out a reign of terror is to totally understate.  These guys made the Waffen-SS look like 'bob a job' Boy Scouts.

 

 

In those dark days on Opinion Forum you toed the pinko liberal line or else! Many suffered horrendously. A recent account by a survivor  - a lady named Annie Baker - I recommend to all of you.  Her book is entitled:

 

ORDEAL!

THE TALE OF MY TORMENT AND SUFFERING

 INFLICTED BY THE CLIQUE

 

and it makes harrowing reading.

The Clique activities were led by pinko liberal  par excellence Obergruppenführer  Detterling. He was aided and abetted by a dreadful woman from Glasgow's Gorbals named Seren_dipity, by an pathetic mummy's boy named Bigkid and by a host of fellow travellers with codenames such as Lilyofthefield, Inky, Jacob, Scintillant, et al. Detterling directed operations and the group communicated through landlines, faxes, mobile phones, telexes, texts and the personal messaging facility of the website. Anyone who looked as if they might be dissident to The Clique's agenda was targeted, harassed, bullied and hounded.

 

And who was the good man who opposed such evil? Step forward Gene Vincent:  Educator, Novelist, Humanitarian and Humorist. Gene fought The Clique from the very outset. His war cry was:

 

We shall go on to the end, we shall fight on Opinion Forum,

we shall fight on the seas and oceans,

we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in cyberspace,

we shall defend our principles, whatever the cost may be,

we shall fight on the beaches,

we shall fight on the landing grounds,

we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,

we shall fight in the hills;

we shall never surrender...

 

He taunted The Clique with:

 

"COME ON CLIQUE. MAKE MY DAY!"

 

At times things looked grim. Possibly the lowest point was when a gentleman from West Sussex posted that his wife, Myrtle Thornberry, had committed suicide after being harassed and bullied for months by The Clique. 

Myrtle Thornberry R.I.P.   ... victim of The Clique

This news seemed to galvanise Gene into a superhuman effort and he staged, metaphorically speaking, his 'Normandy landings' and within a matter of  weeks The Clique was vanquished.

 

So: "Evil disappears when good men do something."

 

Now dearly beloved what I hear you ask became of Obergruppenführer  Detterling? Well, my dear brethren Obergruppenführer  Detterling is living right here in your midst on Tyneside. (Gasps and sharp intakes of breath from the congregation)

Yes, now an old man of 73, he can sometimes be spotted ambling along the Scotswood Road bizarrely dressed in a blue denim jacket, lovat chinos and in green socks in open-toed sandals.  Mostly however he remains indoors listening to his collection of appalling late 60s/early 70s progressive rock albums: Emmerson, Lake and Palmer, Barclay James Harvest and Iron Butterfly.

And why I hear you ask is he not in sackcloth and ashes praying to the Lord to forgive him? Why not indeed brothers and sisters?

Detterling claims to be writing his memoirs. Whether this is so or not I have no way of knowing. And if such memoirs are written it is not for me to speculate on whether they will be published. What I can say with confidence is that in these 'memoirs' there will be no mention of Opinion Forum - or if there is it will be a completely sanitised account.

 

I called on this wretched soul last week in preparation for this homily. I knocked on his door and after an interminable wait hear footsteps shuffling to the door. The door creaked open and there stood Detterling a pathetic wretch of a man.

 

"Good morning Mr Detterling I bring you tidings from Gene Vincent, he sends you the following message: 'WHAT LARKS DETTERS!" I said in a most civil manner. He glared at me venomously and snarled in best Fr Jack fashion: "Gobshite!" He slammed the door in my face and as he shuffled inwards I heard a muffled: "Bastard!"

 

NINE YEARS AGO...

DECLARATIO

(Video)

 

Dear Brothers,

I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry. I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering. However, in today’s world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the barque of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me. For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is.

Dear Brothers, I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects.  And now, let us entrust the Holy Church to the care of Our Supreme Pastor, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and implore his holy Mother Mary, so that she may assist the Cardinal Fathers with her maternal solicitude, in electing a new Supreme Pontiff. With regard to myself, I wish to also devotedly serve the Holy Church of God in the future through a life dedicated to prayer.

From the Vatican, 10 February 2013

BENEDICTUS PP XVI

 

 Reposted...

Sunday, 7 November 2021

 Can any reader tell me what has replaced the Duke of York pub at King's Cross in London?

The Duke of York pub was demolished some years back. The infamous Duke of York showdown took place on the 25th November 2006.  It was the biggest event ever featured on the TES website.

DETTERS ARRIVED LATE BY WHICH TIME GENE HAD GONE HOME   -  AFTER ACCUSING A TOTALLY INNOCENT BYSTANDER (A CHARLES HAWTREY LOOKALIKE) OF BEING DETTERLING.

Those were the days!

 

I have not heard anything of Annie for years. My feeling is that she has passed to the Lord. I doubt if she could ever have recovered from the terrible sufferings inflicted by the Clique.

LEST WE FORGET

 THE LATEST FROM DETTERLING...

                                            Detterling aged fifteen trainspotting in 1959

Detterling is threatening to use a Norwich Pharmacal Order against me.

He writes that he will obtain a "Norwich Pharmacal Order against Google Blogspot to obtain full personal information about you which will serve to confirm the information I already have about you." 

Ha!Ha! Ha! That's the best laugh I've had since I put salt in the Head's sugar bowl at the staff Christmas dinner in 1980.

 

Hi Gene, Dickie here...

The Psalmist writes:

The fool says in his heart

There is no God

Yes Gene, that fool was me until your intervention. I think that the way you put everything so succinctly by asking ' Does an evil monster such as Stalin who does nothing but evil and a saintly lady who does nothing but good, Saint Mother Teresa, go to the same fate after death?' Of course not. There must be heaven and hell and a God.

I note that your friend, that aging curmudgeon Detterling, states there in no heaven nor hell. How can he call himself a Christian? I thought he was a paid-up member of the C of  E. Oops! Sorry I forgot. The C of E does not believe in anything. I should know. I was a boarder at a C of  E Public School.

Gene we must meet up one day in Oxford to discuss the theological implications of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

Best wishes,

Dickie

Dear Obergruppenführer Detterling...

Mr & Mrs Anonymous of Torquay here. We are greatly interested in this online psychotherapists' seminar you mention and would like further and better particulars.

 I am currently working on a paper for the online psychotherapists' seminar I joined during the first lockdown, based on the history of "Granny Barkes Pissed Her Pants in British Home Stores", going back eleven years to its first airing on this deplorable blog, and tracing its development over those eleven years from 212 words of garbage to 470 words of garbage spread out even more thinly.

Torquay in Summer

Obergruppenführer Detterling